Sued for Divorce. Amon Giles Carter, 60, fiercely hospitable, belligerently civic-minded Fort Worth publisher-promoter ("Dictator of Cowtown"); by Nenetta Burton Carter, 45-ish. She used to help welcome his hordes of guests at fabled "Shady Oaks," but asked for divorce on the grounds that her peripatetic husband's "absence from home and . . . failure to exhibit toward her ... affection and constant kindness" had "impaired her health and strength." Carter was divorced from his first wife.

Died. Joe Penner (real name: Joseph Pinter), 36, Hungarian-born radio, stage and screen comic who gained fame a few years ago by his inane radiululations ("Wanna buy a duck?" "You nasty man!"); of heart disease; in Philadelphia, where week ago he had assumed the leading role in the musical show Yokel Boy.

Died. Frederick Robert Higgins, 44, dark, Gaelic-loving Irish poet (Salt Air, Arable Holdings), since 1935 managing director of Dublin's great Abbey Theatre; in Dublin. On a Manhattan visit three years ago, Poet Higgins "found the stage in New York pitiful, contemptible--and what is worse, anemic."

Died. James Joyce, 58, great, expatriate Irish author (Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, Finnegans Wake}, who called his native land "the old sow that eats her farrow"; after an abdominal operation; in Zurich. Nearly blind, Joyce fled before the Nazis to a village near Vichy, and in December to Zurich, where during World War I he wrote most of his masterpiece Ulysses.

Died. Dr. Emanuel Lasker, 72, German-born mathematician, world's chess champion from 1894 to 1921, author (The Philosophy of the Unattainable, Cosmos Under the Aspect of Comprehension); of uremic poisoning; in Manhattan.

Died. Sir John Lavery, 84, Irish portraitist of the impressionist period; in Kilmoganny, County Kilkenny, Eire. He painted Queen Victoria in 1888, Shirley Temple in 1936, and between times did more U. S. millionaires than any other artist in history. Deeply devoted to the late, Chicago-born Lady Lavery, one of the beauties of her time, Sir John used her as model for the colleen on Eire's banknotes, hung a new portrait of her at the Royal Academy nearly every year. Observed he in his autobiography: "I doubt if there are a more heartless crew than poets, painters, or composers."

Died. Mrs. Elisabeth Hampshire, 102; in Leeds, England. Mrs. Hampshire never found out there was a war going on. She was too deaf to hear the sirens, and her daughters told her the blackout was due to a lamplighters' strike.

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